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Originally Posted by GA Russell
So I can imagine an author writing as his characters would speak, but I would think that there is no excuse for the dropping of the "of" outside of an appropriate narrative.
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Feeble racist arguments are so easy to refute. Just do a search of the
Corpus of Historical American English for "couple [n*]" and see how many instances of pre-1900 usage you'll be able to find...